(Neustadt) in 1956 has been shut down for many years. Since 1927, at Hospitalstraße 5, there has been a youth hostel with 60 beds at its disposal. In 1986, the title “Most Beautiful Youth Hostel” (Schönste Jugendherberge) was bestowed upon it. Until 1990, the hostel bore the name Ernst Schneller, after a prewar Communist member of the Reichstag who died at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp. The gymnasium built in 1930 and 1931 on Eibenstocker Straße was opened once again in late October 2004 as the Franz Mehring Sport and Meeting Place after renovation and expansion. Education Primary school, Schulstr. 15 Kurfürst-Johann-Georg-Schule, Käthe-Kollwitz-Str. 16 Famous people Honorary citizens 1665: Johann Löbel the Elder (1592–1666), first mayor, granted exemption from duty for his house by the Saxon Elector 1680: Matthäus Allius (1632–1701), town judge, granted Electoral house privilege throughout the town for merit 1865: Wilhelm Fischer (1796–1884), 1827–1835 mining master in Johanngeorgenstadt, made an endowment of 300 Thalers for the Haldensluster Gestift 1868: Bernhard von Uhde, district director in Zwickau, took it upon himself to quickly remove the 1867 fire damage 1869: Friedrich August Weidauer (d. 1897), Mayor of Schwarzenberg, helped with the rebuilding of Town Hall 1869: Heinrich Moritz Reichelt (d. 1886) mine surveyor in Schwarzenberg, endowed the town church's baptismal font and Bergglocke (“Mountain Bell”) 1870: Ernst Adolph Theodor Degen (1782–1854), apothecary and mayor, helped with the town's reconstruction 1874: Konrad Eduard Löhr (d. 1890), Mayor of Bautzen, Landtag secretary, worked to have the railway built 1874: Heinrich Otto von Erdmannsdorff (1815–1888), Lord of Schönfeld, Member of the Landtag, supported the building of the railway 1874: F. O. Starke, Member of the Second Ständekammer, furthered railway building from Schwarzenberg to Johanngeorgenstadt 1874: Mehnert, Commissar and Member of the Landtag, worked to have the railway built to Johanngeorgenstadt 1874: Karl Eduard Mannsfeld, court director in Schwarzenberg, Member of the Second Ständekammer, furthered railway building 1874: Friedrich Wilhelm Pfotenhauer (1812–1877), Oberbürgermeister of the City of Dresden, furthered railway building 1878: Christian Adolf Lenk (1801–1879), cantor, deacon and minister, saved the church books from the town fire 1880: Léonce Robert Freiherr von Könneritz (1835–1890), Saxon Finance Minister, furthered railway building 1880: Gustav Adolf Vodel, Secret Government Councillor and District Captain in Zwickau, supported the railway connection 1889: Karl August Seifert, town councillor and schooling supporter 1895: Prince Otto von Bismarck (1815–1898), Imperial Chancellor, supported reconstruction after the fire of 1867 1901: Karl Anton